U.S. Olympic Committee CEO Scott Blackmun said on Wednesday that he wants gay, and gay-friendly, athletes attending the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia to comply with Russia’s draconian new anti-gay law that essentially forces gays back in the closet.

The Russian law is so unfortunately broad that this means the US Olympic Committee expects gay athletes to, among other things, leave their legally-wed husbands and wives at home, lest anyone see their spouses in public and claim it’s “gay propaganda.”

Bert Lance, a banker and ally of former President Jimmy Carter’s who served as his first budget director before departing amid a high-profile probe of his bank’s lending practices, died Thursday evening. He was 82.

Lance died at home in northwest Georgia, Gordon County Deputy Coroner Heath Derryberry said. He said Lance had struggled recently with unspecified health problems, though authorities were unsure of his cause of death.

On today’s Kagro in the Morning show, the top talk of the day: new(-ish) revelations about NSA overreach. That figures into Greg Dworkin’s round-up, along with the hilarious Jennifer Rubin story and Chris Christie’s continued tip-toe toward 2016. Monte Frank of Team 26 joins for an update on news and activities from the coalition of gun responsibility activists. Armando joined in later for discussion of the NSA stories of the day, we look under the hood from several different angles, sharpen his points about the need for stricter scrutiny and particularization by the FISC, and look back at the history of similar revelations over the years.